22:11 - Hex_Omegaflight, change your title from 'Stamp Tramp' to 'Master Of The Lists'. 15 lists in 4 months, lol

22:02 - mzyeah Neachy. I've been so out of the metal globe for 2.5 months and have checked only 4 albums: Eerie( 2014), that black metal album with red cover form Iceland, desolate shrine and Abyssal Gods. All of them are very good :D

01. Bless The Child02. End Of All Hope03. Dead To The World04. Ever Dream05. Slaying The Dreamer06. Forever Yours07. Ocean Soul08. Feel For You09. Phantom Of The Opera10. Beauty Of The Beast1 - Long Lost Love2 - One More Night To Live3 - Christabel11. The Wayfarer [bonus]12. Lagoon [bonus]13. Bless The Child [edit][2007 Spinefarm re-release bonus]14. End Of All Hope [live][2007 Spinefarm re-release bonus]15. Dead To The World [live][2007 Spinefarm re-release bonus]

Additional infoProduced by T. Holopainen & TeeCee Kinnunen. Co-produced by Nightwish.
Recorded by Tero Kinnunen at Caverock and Mikko Karmila at Finnvox between January and March 2002.
Mixed by Mikko Karmila at Finnvox in April 2002.
Mastered by Mikko Jussila at Finnvox.

So here it is, the long awaited sequel to Wishmaster and it delivers the same power package but is it really something new? The clear answer is no because all the songs that Century Child delivers are already done on Oceanborn and Wishmaster. When you have an angel then you definetely need a Devil . The best aspect is that Nightwish's bass player Marco Hietala sings on this album.

It's really difficult, if not impossible for my not so great musical maturity, to choose a best Nightwish album, and it's also thankless to do so in my opinion. But... if the world depended on a straightforward answer to the question "Which is your favourite Nightwish album?" I would probably have to say Century Child is that album. Century Child is definitely a departure from Nightwish's original power metal roots. (Despite what people say about the "new era" that Anette brought with her to the sound of Nightwish, that new era was born in Century Child; Dark Passion Play doesn't differ that much in sound from Once for example; only the change of vocalist obviously makes the difference, but the vocal lines written for the album are not that distant from what the band had been doing since 2002 when the band gradually started distancing itself from that operatic vocal register that became a sort of stamp the band had almost become forced to live with.)

The best thing about Century Child was Marco. The music sounded a bit tired to me and Forever Yours might very well be the most boring song Tuomas has ever written. But this album's also got some great tracks like The Beauty Of The Beast and Ever Dream. A rather commercial album compared to the three that came before, but a good one still.

This album marked their transformation between "Old" and "New" Nightwish. Not Tarja's departure.

Nightwish were already moving away from the Power Metal genre years before Anette joined the band. I am so sick of people accusing her of ruining the band. I honestly enjoy Tarja's delivery of vocals better than Anette's, but the world doesn't need to trash Anette.

"Oceanorn" is a really mindblowing masterpiece, and its follower "Wishmaster" just quite as good. "Once" is also a really great album, that differs already too much from Nightwish's original routes but in a really good way ("Once" is actually an album I didn't quite get some time ago, but it just grew inside me and I came to love it just as much as all the others). I also love "Dark Passion Play", even if Anette's vocals are not as good as Tarja's she did a wonderful and corageous job in this album and Tuomas exceeded himself in the lyric writing department with "The Poet and the Pendulum"... My feelings towards "Dark Passion Play" are really hard to explain, I don't love it as much as I do love its predecessors (with the exception of "Angels Fall First") but there's something about this album that overwhelms me as well. Actually "Once" and "Dark Passion Play" are probably the most difficult albums for me to tell my opinion about them (but for the record I LOVE THEM). I would have to say "Imaginaerum" is the album that pleasently surprised me the most since "Century Child" and it's another one I absolutely love, even if my opinion about it is not quite formed yet given its recency. But even given all this, I would choose "Century Child" as my immediate answer to the question "Which is your favourite Nightwish album?".

The last Nightwish album I really liked. I wasn't and still am not too pleased with the direction they took from this album on towards more "hollywood" kind of metal which is not my kind of music. Still I must admit that this album is quite good. Marco Hietala's vocals compliment Tarja's softer vocals well, guitars sometimes sound harder than ever before and songs differentiate between the outcries of soul and soothing moments which, I think, sets it apart from other band's works.

Boring album, album by album and you hear such sound and you're use to it .. same time we all remember how good was 1th one... so here are 2 good songs, others are average, some even boring ...and no not because female vocals, because of week more pop song writing and became mainstream ...